The engagement has been awesome so far! Excited to hear your thoughts on the piece, or pieces, you choose
On fat fetish
Gaining is the fetish that changes how we think about the male body
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/gaining-fetish
Feederism: Eating, Weight Gain, and Sexual Pleasure
On race and fat
BMI
https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb
Fatphobia
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w3f75wpefna44p1/Fearing the Black Body.pdf?dl=0
On dismantling thin privilege
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9f06lm0g8j0y1w/Reflections on Thin Privilege and Responsibility.pdf?dl=0
Week one - Identity
Week two - Capitalism, gender, media and health at every size
As a reminder, these fall in the area of Fat Studies and there’s some norms you should be aware of:
- “fat” is taken as a neutral descriptor, think of it as reclaiming the word.
- “obese” arbitrarily medicalises fatness and Others fat people
:sankara-salute:
It just happened fucking again! Not with my weight but the “that can’t be true”. Friend of mine had a collapse. She took her temperature and it was 33° C, which is 91.4 Fahrenheid, which is waaay to low and extremely dangerous. She took the temperature under her arm, so maybe it was 0.5 dagrees more. She is in another country, so I could only be there over the phone. I looked up what do to and told her to drink a tee. A friend was supposed to come and help and it took him half an hour to get there. She kept drinking tee and kept warm but didn’t want to see a doctor because she had to pay half a month salary for a corona test. It didn’t get better and she went to the Doctors today. When she told her, that she took the temperature under the arm and is was only 33°, she told her that wasn’t possible. She sent my friend home without any further inspection but measuring the heart rate. It’s rediculous, this girl can barely walk and is being told to go home because her sympthoms were impossible and her heart rate is fine.
